Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

  Cindy Lee Johnson

  DENIS JOHNSON is the author of seven novels, three collections of poetry, and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award.

  ALSO BY DENIS JOHNSON

  FICTION

  Train Dreams

  Nobody Move

  Tree of Smoke

  The Name of the World

  Already Dead: A California Gothic

  Jesus’ Son

  The Stars at Noon

  Fiskadoro

  Angels

  NONFICTION

  Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond

  POETRY

  The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General

  Assembly: Poems, Collected and New

  The Veil

  The Incognito Lounge

  PLAYS

  Shoppers: Two Plays

  Copyright © 1991 by Denis Johnson

  All rights reserved

  Published simultaneously in Canada by HarperCollinsCanadaLtd

  It is a pleasure to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

  and the Mrs. Giles R. Whiting Foundation for support

  that made this writing possible.

  eISBN 9781466807051

  First eBook Edition : December 2011

  First edition, 1991

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Johnson, Denis.

  Resuscitation of a hanged man : a novel / Denis Johnson.—1st ed.

  I. Title.

  PS3560.03745R47 1990 813’.54—dc20 90-46283